decode the tech advances of today to leverage them tomorrow

Introduction

Technology is transforming lives and businesses globally. Right from Space X sending a car to outer space to providing electricity to a village in Chennai to imparting education in rural African village to disrupting healthcare in US; technology has touched it all.

Even closer to home, technology has changed and opened a gamut of opportunities across industries. From healthcare, fintech, food & agro, education, enterprise tech, energy to aerospace; Indian tech has changed the game not just internally but is also leaving indelible mark on the global platforms.

Agenda

Thu, May 3

Registration & Breakfast

09:30am – 09:45am

Welcome Address : TechCircle for #TechTomorrow

Shalil Gupta, CBO, News Corp VCCircle

Emerging technologies are enabling enterprises to embrace digital transformation and create a sustainable corporate differentiation. How are the incumbents building digital enterprises to not only compete but lead the way for others? The keynote talks about strategies adopted by enterprises that have opened themselves in the digital era.

09:45am – 10:00am

Keynote: How the digital native enterprises are winning the future

Jaideep Mehta, CEO, News Corp VCCircle

Technology’s role in any business is critical to evaluate its ability to fundamentally change how to operate and deliver value to customers. CIOs today are involved in strategic initiatives to help drive innovation, growth and lead significant business evolution through digital transformation. How this holistic digital transformation is focusing on more customer and worker-centric models for better organisational functions? How businesses can remain competitive and relevant as the world becomes increasingly digital?
Krishnaprasad Shastry (Prasad), Distinguished Technologist, EG CTO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Piyush Chowhan, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Arvind Lifestyle Brands
Mohan Lakhamraju, Founder & CEO, Great Learning
K Ganesh, Serial Entrepreneur & Partner, GrowthStory & Promoter Portea Medical (Moderator)

10:00am – 10:40am

Panel Discussion I: Digital transformation in Enterprises

Coming up with a great idea is only the journey well begun. It takes dedication, perseverance and painstaking execution before an idea travels the arduous journey to become a reality. Here, we ask our interesting set of entrepreneurs on what it took for them to make their idea into a reality?
Ambareesh Murty, Founder & CEO, Pepperfry.com
Mithun Srivatsa, Founder & CEO, Blowhorn
Iype Isac, Chief Delivery Officer, BankBazaar.com
Shripati Acharya, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners (Moderator)

Showcase Session

Closing Keynote
Disrupting the Disruptors

Shalil Gupta, CBO, News Corp VCCircle

06:30PM onwards

TechCircle Awards 2018

Followed by cocktails & dinner

06:30PM ONWARDS

TechCircle Awards 2018

Gala Night followed by cocktails, networking & dinner

It is a curated platform for innovative startups to make an elevator pitch to a select jury of angel investors, venture capitalists and fellow entrepreneurs. This is also a platform of choice for early stage, pre-revenue startups for attracting investor attention. Please click here to nominate.

04:30pm – 05:00pm

Showcase Session (Closed door)

Room – 2
Company 1 – Angel+ Start up
Company 2 – Angel+ Start up

AGENDA

Day 2 / Fri, May 4

9:50am – 10:00am

Welcome Address : TechCircle for #TechTomorrow

Shalil Gupta, CBO, News Corp VCCircle

10:00am – 10:45am

Keynote & Live Journalism

From angel to slightly mature capital, funds were difficult to come by for startups across the spectrum in 2017 except the top few deals where mature investors took big bets on mature tech startup companies. What is amiss? In case of missing VC’s, are big tech companies ready to take bets on tech startups such as Microsoft’s investment in Flipkart?

10:45am – 11:30am

Panel Discussion : Funding on the Ebb

11:30am – 11:45am

Networking Break

The scions of old guard in the corporate world are charting out their own growth path and also lending a helping hand to new and upcoming entrepreneurs and enterprises. A conversation on their thinking, vision and the journey they have embarked upon.

11:45am – 12:05pm

Keynote: The scions of old guard charting out their own growth path

Executives must be able to address AI in an informed way. Need to understand not just where AI can boost revenue growth; efficiencies and innovations but also where AI can’t yet provide value. Become a leader who understands some of the challenges and is prepared to leverage AI developments for enormous value creation.

12:05pm – 12:50pm

Fireside Chat : New technology – The good and the bad

Considering the economic boom, transparency of system and the overall development, technology and its advances can bring, substantially impact to economical and social fabric of India and the realize the dream of digital economy. Measures to introduce ICT for majority of G2C interactions, demonetization, issuing licenses to payment banks etc. show a strong inclination of governmental to drive digital India vision.

Cancellation Policy:
There is no cash refund in case you cancel the registration from your end. We will issue a credit note for an equivalent amount which you can adjust/utilise against any of our future events (under the validity period) if the registration is cancelled at least 3 days before the event, post which NO credit note will be issued.

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Delegates will be refunded the registration fee in full in case the conference gets cancelled from our end.

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Substitution Policy:
Substitutions within a company are permitted through the conference date. Shared registrations are not permitted under any circumstances